I suggest we start setting traps, lest our universe be eaten by mice.
The mice don’t want to eat the universe. They just want to figure out the answer to the Ultimate Question.
They know its 42, and sooner or later, they’re going to figure out that the experiment went wrong and decide to kill the lot of us just on general principles.
I’d be more worried about being eaten up by whatever is making a giant fondue of the universe.
Mmmm. Cheesiverse.
I like MOND
I thought we knew about megastructures already. Isn’t it common knowledge that the Local Group is part of some immensely huge wall held together by dark matter and bizarre observational results?
That’s what I thought. I read about the “Swiss cheese” comparison years before hearing about the startling observations indicating accelerating expansion. What gives?
My barely educated (in this topic) guess is this.
When they look at these distant supernovas, there are many things they have to correct for to decide whether or not the universe is accelerating in its expansion.
These voids, if big enough and different enough from what was presviously assumed/measured it could throw the corrections off enough to cause problems.
The few graphs I’ve run across showing this acceleration haven’t impressed me. The data showed that it existed, but it wasn’t a slam dunk data wise as far as I was concerned.
Maybe in the past few years, the data has gotten much better…
This just builds on String Cheese Theory.
Well, as long as Schroedinger’s cat does not get distracted by the ball of String Theory . . . .
The General theory of cheesitivity?
(got nothin)